Posted on 03/15/2015 5:47:51 PM PDT by Publius804
Actor Michael Douglas is speaking out about an ugly confrontation with a jerk who gave his 14-year-old son “his first taste of anti-Semitism.”
The two-time Oscar winner revealed the incident happened last year when he and wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, took their two young children on a family vacation to Europe.
“During our stay at a hotel, our son Dylan went to the swimming pool. A short time later he came running back to the room, upset. A man at the pool had started hurling insults at him,” Douglas wrote in an op-ed piece in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.
The 71-year-old Douglas said he initially thought his son had misbehaved. Then he realized the teen, who attends Hebrew school and has been studying for his bar mitzvah, was left truly shaken and in tears.
“I stared at him. And suddenly I had an awful realization of what might have caused the man’s outrage: Dylan was wearing a Star of David,” Douglas wrote.
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If something is a fact, there’s no weight behind the comment. If it’s not truly a fact, then some weight will go with the comment.
A person can make a comment thinking it’s true, and no weight will go with it, but it’s an error none the less.
I agree that the charge can be tossed out too easily. Like racism against Blacks when it’s not true, I believe charging someone with racism or antisemitism is at least as equally abhorrent as being racist.
The person tossing it out can be completely clueless to that. They generally are.
Of course it’s our duty to be completely sure of things we say too, around the edges of these matters.
I know what you mean Wardaddy.
LOL. Hey don’t fret, I agree with your observation here too.
I will tell you though, the Jews that vote for Democrats in the U. S., just may qualify for the charge.
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